November 17, 2023 - January 26, 2024
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Gulls in Flight, 1964
34 x 30 inches
framed: 35 x 31 inches
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated lower right
Sand and Sea
16 x 19 5/8 inches
framed: 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches
gouache on paper
signed lower right
White Nude, Brown Sea, 1962
30 x 24 inches
framed: 36 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches
oil on board
signed and dated lower right; titled verso
Coral Shell, c. 1944
20 x 15 inches
framed: 24 3/8 x 19 1/4 inches
watercolor on board
signed lower right; titled verso
Figures by the Sea, 1950
12 x 16 1/2 inches
framed: 18 3/8 x 22 3/4 inches
gouache on paper
signed lower right
Blue School
24 x 18 inches
framed: 30 x 24 inches
oil on board
signed lower right
Sand Dunes at Pensacola, Florida, 1938
14 x 20 ½ inches
framed: 20 x 26 inches
watercolor on paper
signed, dated, and titled lower left
Florida Fantasy, 1945
20 ¼ x 13 inches
framed: 26 5/8 x 19 3/8 inches
gouache on wove paper
signed and dated lower left; titled verso
Feather and Seashell Still Life
12 ½ x 10 inches
framed: 18 ½ x 16 ½ inches
oil on artist board
signed lower left
Palm Tree and Boat, 1943
22 x 15 inches
framed: 29 ½ x 21 ¾ inches
watercolor on paper
signed and dated lower right
Pink Nude
18 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches
framed: 23 x 18 inches
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right
Gulls Landing, 1964
34 x 30 inches
framed: 35 x 31 inches
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated lower right
Key West Bathers at Dusk
17 3/4 x 24 inches
framed: 25 x 30 3/4 inches
watercolor on paper
signed lower left
Approaching the Beach
15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
framed: 22 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches
oil and collage on canvasboard
signed lower right
Seashell Still Life, c. 1930
16 1/4 x 22 inches
framed: 24 3/8 x 30 1/4 inches
oil on canvas
signed lower left
Hurricane, Palm Beach, 1949
19 3/4 x 28 inches
framed: 29 3/8 x 37 5/8 inches
ink and wash on paper
signed and dated lower right
Carousel Horses, “The Battleship,” Ormond Beach Florida, 1939
15 ½ x 22 ½ inches
framed: 23 ¼ x 30 ¼ inches
watercolor and pencil on paper
signed and dated lower right
Mural Design Sketch for Ormond Hall, 1930
23 ½ x 33 ¾ inches
framed: 28 x 38 ½ inches
pencil, watercolor, gouache on paper
initialed and inscribed lower right
Study for Bathers
11 ¼ x 16 1/8 inches
framed: 16 x 20 ¾ inches
pencil on paper
estate stamp lower right
Sunset, Key West, FL, c. 1950
14 x 21 inches
framed: 20 ¼ x 27 ¼ inches
watercolor on paper
signed lower right
Gray Day on the Beach, Key West, FL
10 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches
framed: 15 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches
pencil and ink on paper
estate stamped lower right
Woman in a Garden
20 x 29 7/8 inches
framed: 27 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches
watercolor and gouache on paper
signed lower right
Bird with Sunflower
19 x 15 inches
framed: 23 ¾ x 19 ¾ inches
oil on canvasboard
signed lower right
Lilacs
14 x 24 inches
framed: 21 1/2 x 31 1/4 inches
oil and collage on canvas
signed lower right
Cottage Country
19 x 13 1/4 inches
framed: 23 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches
gouache on paper
signed upper left
Flower Box Still Life
11 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches
framed: 19 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
oil on board
signed lower right
High Flying Picnic, 1950
16 ½ x 12 ¾ inches
framed: 24 ¼ x 20 ½ inches
gouache on board
signed lower right
Installation Views

Works by Virginia Berresford and Adolf Dehn

Works by Francis Chapin, Virginia Berresford and Adolf Dehn

Works by Frederick Dana Marsh, Virginia Berresford and Reginald Marsh

Works by Arnold Blanch, Doris Lee and Sally Michel
D. Wigmore Fine Art presents Sun, Sea and Doris Lee, an exhibition of over thirty paintings by ten artists that show their creative responses to different aspects of Florida. The artists in our exhibition are Doris Lee (1904-1983), Virginia Berresford (1904-1995), Francis Chapin (1899-1965), Adolf Dehn (1895-1968), Lucy L’Engle (1889-1978), Witold Gordon (1885-1968), Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Frederick Dana Marsh (1872-1961), Jan Matulka (1890-1972), and Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003)
We have singled out Doris Lee as she fell under Florida’s spell on her first visit in 1940. She purchased a home in Key West in 1941 and with her husband, Arnold Blanch, spent January through April each year in Florida. Blanch taught at New York’s Art Students League and in art programs across Florida. Birds, fishermen and bathers by Blanch and Lee add joy to this exhibition. As artist-in-residence at the Research Studio in Maitland, Florida, Lee developed a friendship with Milton and Sally Avery who also spent the winters of 1950 and 1951 there. A Sally Michel bather and a floral still life stand out in the exhibition. Watercolors by Virginia Berresford reflect her interest in the intense light and shadow found in Florida’s exotic flora and fauna and underwater with coral and fish. Berresford wintered in Florida from 1934 to 1950 in Miami and then Key West where her husband was stationed at Fort Taylor during World War II. Lucy L’Engle, one of Provincetown’s modernists, painted a palm frond she used as a fan in St. Augustine. Reginald Marsh visited Ormond Beach regularly after his father, Frederick Dana Marsh, retired there in 1928. We feature Reginald Marsh’s portrait of “The Battleship,” his father’s Ormond Beach house named for its streamlined modern architecture. In the foreground Marsh includes the carousel horses on the lawn that they rescued from the town dump. A real find in our exhibition is Dana Marsh’s plan for a mural in the “The Battleship,” which features different Florida Indians and a notation that Doris Lee liked the design. Several ocean and beachside subjects by Adolf Dehn speak of changeable Florida weather with a hurricane approaching Palm Beach, as well as paintings in which mists or sunny bird life are seen along the coast. We hope Sun, Sea and Doris Lee will bring you some sunshine.